Supermax Prisons: Alcatraz

Back in the 1920’s people would be selling beers and liquors caused people to get drunk. So they chose to make a prohibition where beer or those liquors were illegal. This caused chaos and more criminals to come and people still started to sell them. This made the people build a super max prison named Alcatraz or Justice on the Rock to hold the most wanted criminals. But over time they had to shut Alcatraz down, and then sent the prisoners all across the U.S.A
Alcatraz is different from other prisons because first there wasn’t that many supermax prisons in fact it was the only super max prison. Justice on the Rock was alo different because it was the main prison where the baddest of the baddest went including Robert Stroud and Al Capone. Alcatraz
They were also scared because over time Alcatraz started to break down and that made it easier for the prisoners to escape, and they were even more scared because they didn’t know even if they were alive. This made Alcatraz not very good to hold prisoners because over time walls broke down and it was to expensive to run they couldn’t repair it so it was easier to escape.Lastly Alcatraz was scary to other people because of a riot that happened in Alcatraz where some people even died. This caused for many years the prisoners be the guards and taking
Alcatraz also shut down because of how it was breaking down and they couldn’t rebuild it because of how much it costed. Another reason why Alcatraz shut down is because their was over 3 dozens of people who tried to escape, 12 of them died while some others got caught. But Frank Morris and his brothers tried to escape and just disappeared so we never knew if they escaped or not. The problems these things caused is that in 1964 the prison finally was shut down and took the rest of the prisoners to other prisons across the U.S.A.
The Rock was one of the most famous prisons ever, and one of the only prisons to hold the most wanted criminals including Al Capone. Alcatraz had to be shut down because of how much it costed. Alcatraz was most famous for their prisoners and their way of saying how it was impossible to escape. Alcatraz is now a place where a lot of tourists come to visit and feel like how it felt in the cells and more. Alcatraz is still today one of the biggest prisons and part of history today and still